Florida Weatherman Warns He Won’t Be Able to Accurately Predict Hurricanes This Summer Because of Federal Budget Cuts

Sarah Rumpf Jun 3rd, 2025, 9:45 pm

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John Morales , a meteorologist at NBC 6 South Florida, had a dire warning for viewers as the 2025 hurricane season kicked off: due to federal budget cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), he would no longer be able to accurately predict hurricanes.

In a video posted on YouTube, Morales played an archived clip from his report on Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm from 2019 that did indeed turn and have a lesser impact on Florida, as he had predicted, one of many critically important weather reports he had given over his 34 years in South Florid

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